All,
let me come out and recommend Red Line's Water Wetter product. Putting
that stuff in my cooling system (73 B) made a difference I could see on
the gauge. Apparently it's some type of surfactant - I don't know the
ins and outs, but I do know that it works.
Check out www.redlineoil.com for more info.
xyzabcde@earthlink.net wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've run a 160 degree thermostat in my '67B in Southern California for lo
>these
> many years. The car runs consistently at 170 degrees. The only benefit to
>this
> over a 180 degree thermostat is that I have the extra time it takes the car to
> heat up those extra ten degrees before the car overheats when stuck in
>traffic.
> Even though the thermostat is open all time, it still restricts the coolant
>flow
> enough to prevent the problems associated with having no thermostat.
>
> The down side to this is that, in cold weather, the car never heats up enough
>to
> run well. If the car doesn't get up to 170, it dies at idle. When I get
> someplace with better weather and traffic, I plan to put a 180 degree
>thermostat
> in. The optimum would be a 170 degree thermostat, but these aren't available.
>
> In one of my attempts to solve the Southern California traffic overheating
> problem, I had a three row core put in a B radiator. But I stupidly left it
>in
> the car that went to Norway so I have no idea if this would have helped or
>not.
> The car also had a 160 degree thermostat. The poor guy who bought it is still
> probably trying to figure out why the car won't warm up. :-}
>
> So, I'm still driving with a 160 degree thermostat and I just stop and do my
> water jug dance over the radiator when the car gets too hot in traffic. It
> probably looks a lot like a one-person Chinese Fire Drill.
>
> Just my exciting experiences in B driving. :-}
>
> Denise Thorpe
>
> Max Heim wrote:
> >
> > To my way of thinking, a 160 thermostat makes no sense at all. The car
> > isn't going to run that cold under any normal conditions, so it'll be
> > open all the time anyway. Might as well not have one. If it did run that
> > cold by some fluke, it would actually contribute to inefficient
> > combustion (too low an operating temperature). So you were right with the
> > 180.
> >
> > For reference, my 66 B runs dead on 190 (according to the gauge, FWIW),
> > unless idling motionless on a hot day (200-210+) or driving home from
> > Giants night games (150-170, kinda makes the heater useless).
> >
> > Glad you got out of that "sticky wicket" OK. Watch out for the open carb
> > throats as well...
> >
> > Michael Graziano had this to say:
> >
> > >Hey all. Just a quick question, and a quick story.....
> > >
> > >1. WHat's the difference between a 160 degree and a 180 degree thermostat
> > >besides 20 degrees? i.e. which should be used when? And when I went to
> > >change mine, I found that the DPO didn't have one installed. Is this
> > >indicative of overheating problems?
--
Karl Shultz
95 Integra GS-R, black, loud
73 MGB, orange, only marginally drivable
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